Interview with Daniel of the D-Report.

Title:Parenting for Liberation: Continuing the Conversation

Topic: Parenting

Segment: D Report

Participants: Trina Green Brown,

Broadcast Air Date: 06/15/18

Time: 5:15 PM (PST)

Station: KUCR 88.3 FM Riverside, CA

KUCR station page: http://www.kucr.org

Discussion Topics:

– How do we take care of our children within the politics of a world that requires us to resist?

– What does it mean to parent from a place of fear?

– What is post traumatic slave syndrome and how does this trauma affect our parenting?

– How does the urgency to protect our children manifest fear?

– How do balance imparting preparation of our adult sight to our children without over burdening them?

– How do we acknowledge the brilliance of our children?

– Why can children imagine that a different world is possible, and adults can’t?

– Do we under estimate children’s potential for acceptance of and compassion for others?

– Do we see children in a disrespectful way?

– How do we have respectful relationships with our sons or daughters?

– How do we talk to our children about sex, gender, colonialism and other “isms?”

– Do other parents also feel alone in their fears and questions of parenting?

– How do we create spaces to engage with other parents, so we can realize we are not alone and heal?

– If you build it they will come?

– Are we able to build relationships of mutuality with our children that are removed patterns of dominance and control?

– What are ways of parenting that are rooted in trauma?

– What if we are not interested in enforcing the politics of respect onto our children?